| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
374 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm |
| Note |
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Mar. 8-Sept. 7, 2008, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and at later dates, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, and San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Iconic ideologies of womanhood : African cultural perspectives. The African female body in the cultural imagination / Barbara Thompson -- African women's body images in postcolonial discourse and resistance to neo-crusaders / Ifi Amadiume -- Les parisiens d'Afrique : Mangbetu women as works of art / Enid Schildkrout -- Plates -- Colonizing Black women : the Western imaginary. The Black female body, the postcard, and the archives / Christraud Geary -- The body of a myth : embodying the Black mammy figure in visual culture / Kimberly Wallace-Sanders -- Plates -- Meaning and identity : personal journeys into Black womanhood. Picturing the new Negro woman / Deborah Willis -- The women who posed : Maudelle Bass and Florence Allen -- Housing and homing the Black female body in France : Calixthe Beyala and the legacy of Sarah Baartman and Josephine Baker / Ayo Abiétou Coly -- Decolonizing Black bodies : personal journeys in the contemporary voice / Barbara Thompson -- Plates. |
| Subject |
Women, Black, in art -- Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
Thompson, Barbara, 1960-
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Amadiume, Ifi, 1947-
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Hood Museum of Art.
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Davis Museum and Cultural Center.
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San Diego Museum of Art.
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| ISBN |
9780295987705 |
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0295987707 |
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9780295987712 paperback |
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0295987715 paperback |
| Standard No. |
2774834 |
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